The New Art Gallery Walsall

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The New Art Gallery Walsall presents a selection of works by
seven international contemporary artists who work with found
images, whether gleaned from the internet, flea markets and
second-hand shops or mass produced printed sources such as magazine
pages and postcards. The artists employ a range of processes and
techniques including cuts, embellishments, erasure and
interference, to transform or 're-stage' the found image,
separating it from its original use, context and meaning. The
exhibition explores themes of loss, memory and mass experience as
well as socially-constructed hierarchies and identities concerning
gender, race and religion. Drawing attention to our relentless
consumption and self-projection of visual information in a digital
age, the selected artworks reverberate and bring into question the
feeling of being suffocated and framed by representations of other
people's lives, tastes and experiences.

FOUND features work by Paul Chiappe, Ruth
Claxton, Julie Cockburn, Ellen Gallagher, Vesna Pavlović, Erik
Kessels and John Stezaker, including six new works specially
commissioned by The New Art Gallery Walsall.

Julie Cockburn exhibited her latest body of work Waiting Room at Flowers Kingsland Road in
December 2014.